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Thank you, I was led up the garden path by putting in an alternative to creditors - debtees - which fitted the crossers but made no sense of the clue, but got it now, thanks for settling the issue.

Stuck on 14d (10)."swapping speed initially for cochineal, slip inside deviously, as whips do.
Many thanks.

Discipline (swap one S, speed, for a C, cochineal, in anagram of 'slip inside)

Thanks very much!

Private Eye 735
22 The lead milk producer lacks name for drink
T?P???
tipple? Why?

T (n)IPPLE

T(he) and Ipple. nipple, milk producer, losing the N, lacks name.

Thanks Malone - that should have been obvious even to me.
Maybe this next one is less so:
27/3 Pop off and defile a street.
P?A? ?W?Y
Almost certainly PASS AWAY, means to die or, as the clue has it, pop off.
I see A WAY could be a street, but relationship between 'defile' and 'pass' escapes me. Can you help please?

In geography, a defile is a narrow pass or gorge between mountains or hills.

JohnT, Chambers gives one definition of Defile as 'a long narrow pass...'so that seems fine.

PS Someone got to the Topple before me!